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Seriously Obsessed With Snowdrops

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Anne Marie Chaker

Updated March 18, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

To those who love and collect snowdrops, little distinctions make these bulbs worth the hunt: The tiny green mark on "Robin Hood" is a faint X, while that of "S. Arnott" looks more like an upside-down heart. "Mrs. McNamara" has a small, slim V.

"You start looking at them a little closer, and you get stuck on these tiny, minute differences, and it all starts making sense," says Michael Loos, a collector in Ovid, N.Y. "And the biggest excitement about snowdrops is that they start...